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Merry Christmas, gentrifiers! This holiday season, Santa was extra nice and gave the well-to-do of such famed up-and-coming districts as Uptown 23rd, Classen Ten-Penn, Midtown and the Plaza District the gift of being able to eat at overpriced seafood restaurants and buy faux-artisan street-art without having to look at those dirty homeless miscreants standing in the middle of the street, selling their Curbside Chronicles or, God forbid, begging for loose change.
Yes, the good Christians on the OKC City Council officially voted to make being poor a crime punishable by law, banning the act of panhandling on medians in our Big League city. And while this is a great Christmas gift for those that have homes (and clothes and food and dignity), an act such as this, especially around this time of year, is going to create a sense of desperation for many, ranging from the need to provide for a family to personal addictions and demons that have gone beyond their control.